I'm trying to change Handmaiden's appearance, but it doesn't seem to be working. I first did a .utc change and recruited her,
but nothing happened, then I tried using KSE, but that didn't work either, so I edited the appearance.2da... and that crashed
my game. So, how would I go about changing Handmaiden's appearance?

How so change it?

I've noticed that you can't change her appearance with KSE either. No matter what other selection you make....you still get the handmaiden. Is there something in TSL that makes it difficult to change (not merely modify) the handmaiden's appearance to that of someone else (Bastila, any female PC selection, etc..)?

I'm trying to change Handmaiden's appearance, but it doesn't seem to be working. I first did a .utc change and recruited her,
but nothing happened, then I tried using KSE, but that didn't work either, so I edited the appearance.2da... and that crashed
my game. So, how would I go about changing Handmaiden's appearance?

The handmaiden doesn't use a single fixed appearance type like most characters in the game do. The game automatically switches her between three different appearance types depending on what she is wearing and her light/dark alignment. This is done to make her able to use her hooded outfit as well as regular armor and robes.

In other words, your KSE changes will only last until the game engine changes her back to what it thinks she should look like.

Here are a couple of threads that discusses this a bit:
http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2304019&postcount=3)
http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2355403&postcount=2)

:thumbsup: Wow, thanks stoffe.

I want to change her to the female asian head #5. I've tried it but she turns into kreia when in clothes and a turret when in armor. o_O How would I go about changing handmaiden into the player female asian 5?

Use KotOR tool; export the female asians head you want in .tga format then rename that handmaidens to whats usually the hand maidens face name and that should work; be warned however this will also change all the other sister to that look as well. It will be something like po_handmaiden if my memory i correct; explore KotOR tool; if your still having no luck, let me know and I'll do it for you and send the file over for you; just PM your email address.

Uh... that would only change her texture. She would still have the same model. I want to change the model to the female asian too.

EDIT: Got it to work. I must have just messed up the copy and paste of rows before in the 2da file. Now handmaiden is asian! Yay!